Word

spotlight, v.
(spotlighting, spotlights, spotlit)
freq. cnt. 1

move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent
<verb.change> freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1

foreground highlight play up spotlight

sample sentences

"The introduction highlighted the speaker's distinguished career in linguistics"

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lexical pointers

derivationally related form

highlighter highlighter highlighting highlight

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

spotlight

lexical pointers

antonym

play down

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

foreground

antonym

background

semantic pointers

hypernym

set off, bring out

illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater
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spotlight

verb frames

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

spotlight

semantic pointers

hypernym

light, illuminate, illumine, light up, illume